Introducing a framework for obtaining and maintaining renewable energy security at the local community level
Local energy communities are a framework for assembling and coordinating major stakeholders, individual, corporate, and institutional, in the pursuit of long-term renewable energy and carbon-free projects in a given area. They are aimed at community benefits rather than profit, and have become an invaluable tool in the fight to reimagine the global energy grid, one community at a time. With climate change making this fight ever more urgent, integrated local energy communities (ILECs) that enhance the previous concept through a multi-carrier systems’ approach have never been a more important social force.
Integrated Local Energy Communities offers a framework for designing, planning, and operating communities from end to end. Incorporating regulatory and policy issues, the mechanics of local multi-carrier energy systems, social aspects and more, it provides viable solutions to one of the most urgent energy challenges of our time. The result is an indispensable contribution to a potentially transformative process.
Integrated Local Energy Communities readers will also find:
- Comprehensive coverage of all types of energy conversion technologies and processes
- Analysis of the entire value chain, from concepts to planning and operation
- Discussion of all key factors for integrating the ILEC energy paradigm
Integrated Local Energy Communities is ideal for energy engineers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, engineering scientists working in consultancy and industry, as well as the libraries that serve them.
1. Introduction: The Need for Sector Coupling
2. Current Status of Multi-Carrier Energy Systems in Europe with Main Limitations and Shortcomings to the Optimal Use of Local Energy Resources
3. Identification of ILEC Subject with Enabling Conditions and Technologies
4. Business Models, Actors and Key Issues for Implementation of ILECs
5. Holistic Approach for Planning and Operation of ILECs Through Multi-Objective Approach
6. An Innovative Toolbox for Designing and Operating an ILEC
7. Integrated Flexibility Identification and Employment
8. Peer-To-Peer Market Among Multi-Carrier Energy Buildings
9. Validation of Energy Hub Solutions Through Simulation and Testing in a Lab Environment and Real World
10. Roadmap and Guidelines for Optimizing the ILECs
11. Conclusions and Key Findings
Marialaura Di Somma, PhD, is Associate Professor of Applied Thermodynamics in the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II (Italy).
Christina Papadimitriou, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Intelligent Energy Systems in the research group Electrical Energy Systems of the Electrical Engineering department of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands.
Giorgio Graditi, PhD, is the Director General of ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development that depends on the Italian Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security.
Koen Kok, PhD, is Full Professor of Intelligent Energy Systems in the research group Electrical Energy Systems of the Electrical Engineering department of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands.
